A Christmas Carol

Complete and unabridged, with 45 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, John Everett Millais and William Powell Frith. Scrooge is visited by his dead partner and then by three spirits, and has one night to see what his life has cost the people in it. Dickens wrote it in six weeks in the autumn of 1843, walking London after dark, and published it at his own expense when his sales were falling....